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VOL. II. NO. 3 8 . SOUTHPORT, CONN., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 , 1 8 8 0 . l a FabaeM VM BtTtSl>OO F«rAu»i
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W . C H U R C H O U S E ,
• O U T H J » O R T , - - - - - C O IV N .,
MERCHANT TAILOR.
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CMke, tW MAIN ST., o ^ i t e Cannon,
hS PO B T . - - - * C O N N .
r o ir j) BETTER ASK ME.
<‘OU, -as time I shouMtiak to your mother,
gwect Hiry,” ssys I ;
“ Oh, dout talk to my mother," n y s Ib iy .
Beginning to <xy;
“ For my molfacr s»y» bmo «ie deoei»«i,
And never, I know, wiU oomient;
She isys gitls in a hnny who ja rry
At leisme repent."
“ Then, anppoae I would talk to your f. tlif r.
Sweet Mary," says I ;
“ Oh, don’t talk to my father," says Mary,
lli^nning to Cfj;
“ For my father, he loves me ao deariy,
He’ll never consent I dioold go­l
f you talk to my father,” lays Mary,
“ He’ll surdy aay, “ No.”
“ Then how ahaU I got you, my Jewel ?
Sireet Mary,” saya li
“ If TOUT father and mother’s so emel,
Uwt surely rU die!"
“Oh, never say die, dear,” says Mary;
“A way now I have you, I see ;
Since my pareuta are both so contrary—
You’d better ask ni«.”
IiOVEa.
THE MI^HIMNET.
T h e S to ry o f a B ric k la y e r.
’Twas when I was courting Katie that
the accident I ’m going to tell you about
happened. But for that same accident,
I don’t think Katie an’ I would be man
an’ wile this day, for you see my father
was set again’ the match, Katie being
only a laborer’s daughter; while he him­self
was foreman in the mills, getting
(!ood wages, and thought a great deal of
by his employers. An’ if it wasn’t for
ir.tin I don’t think I ’d be here now to
tell you about it, for ’twos she that
saved my life, through hitting on a plan
that never once came into the heads of
me or of my comrades—aye, or of those
fhaf you’d have thought would know
better than any of us.
I was not brought up to my father’s
trade, having been token, when young,
by a brother of my mother’s ; a master
bricklayer living in the town. When
my unde died I came home to Lisgar-ven
for a bit, just to see my father, and
finding that they were a t work on the
new buildings at the miUs, I looked for
employment there, an* got it a t onee.
Lisgatven lGllisaflourmill,an’ apretty
plaoe it was in those days, with the river
running just by the old r^ -b rick build­ings,
an* the big water-wheel always go­ing
round an’ round. The river falls
into a larger one a little lower down, an*
the tide c(Hnes up as far as the mill, so
’tis in boats that most of the com is
brought in, an’ the flour carried away.
’Tisu’t half so pretty a plaoe now; there
are big whitewashed buildings alongside
cf the old brick ones; the old whee\ is
stopped, an* you hear the whirr of the
engines instead of the sound of water.
But they makes a power of money there,
an’ gives a deal of employment
As I was saying, 1 got taken on as a
bricklayer. Katie’s father was working
there, too, an* I used to see her bring­ing
him his dinner, and, after a bit, I
began to think that I ’d like to have her
bringing me mine, too. She was as
pretty a girl then as you’d see any­where—
she’s good-looking to this day—
an’ I soon became that fond of her, that
I ’d have done anything a’most to get
her. She herself was willing enough;
’twas my father that made the difficulty.
He was a proud man; as proud iu his
way as any gentleman, an* he was right
down mad a t the notion of my marrying
a laborer’s daughter. To be sure I was
earning good wages, an’ might have
married without asking any one’s leave
if I ’d been so minded, but I didn’t like
to go again’ the old man that had always
been good to me. Beside, Katie was
just as proud as himself, an ’ would have
notliiug to say to me imless he was satis-fied.
I got the owner to speak to him,
but sure ’twasn’t a bit of use.
“ How would you like, sir,” he says
to the owner, “ if I had a daughter, to
have Master Philip take up with her, an’
wouldn’t that be the same thing ?”
I believe the owner didn’t think it
would be at all the same thing; but my
father wouldn’t hear the reason from
him any more than from me; so Katie
an* I had jui>t nothing for it but to
wait in the hope of his coming round,
an* very little hope we had of that same.
As we were putting np a steam-engine
in the mill, we had of course to have a
big chimney, an* we got a man down
from town to build i t—one of them chaps
that builds chimneys on’ nothing else,
an’ thinks nobody knows anything about
it but theirselves. I was working along
with him, and indeed 'twas I that built
the most of it, an* a right good job it
was. ’Twas finished by Ghristmss—
ten yean ago this Christmas coming on
—all bu^ tiie lightning conductor, and
that was not put up owing to the owner’s
wanting to make inquiries when he’d go
to town, an’ to see for himself whai
would be the best kind to use. The
proprietor was a scientific sort of a gen­tleman,
an’ had ideas of his own—some­times
they’d be better than other peo­ple’s,
sometimes not as good.
At any rate, there was a delay about
the conductor, an’ in the meantime the
engines were a t work, an* the big
chimney was smoking away like blazes.
Hr. Brown, the strange workman, had
gone away, saying, very condescending
like, that he was sure Jim Forde (that
was me) would be able to futen the rod
to the chimney as well as he could do it
himself. He took all his scaffolding
with him, but before he went away, he
fixed a beam with a pulley in it into the
top of the chimney, an* left a long rope
hanging through it, so that a man could
be hoisted np at any time; an* there the
roiie hung dangling, w e ^ after week,
until the owner came home, bringing the
rod along with him.
Once it had come,'^here was no good
losing any more time in fixing it, so one
Saturday a f t^ o o n in January, up I
went on a plank, slung securely at the
end of the rope, my tools along with me,
an’ nettled myself astride on the stone
ooping. ’Twas rather late in the day,
but the morning had been too wet an’
stormy to work, an* the owner was m
impatient to get the job done as if it
hadn’t been hitnaAlf that was hindering
it all time. I was as much a t home
atop of the chimney as I was on the
gronnd, an I worked on without once
looking down, until my job was finished,
an* I was putting np my tools. Then,
aU of a sudden, I heard a rattling nom,
an* looking over, I saw the plank gcwg
down very fa st I called o n t “ Hullo,
th ere! send that np again, will yon?”
but the only answer I got was a lond
laugh, for all the world like siUy Jerry
the natural’s ; and sure enough there he
was, standing by the windlass, jumping
an’ clapping his hand«.
I looked about for the man whose
business it was to manage the ^nndloss,
but not a sign of him was there, an* in a
minute I heard the rattle of the pulley
again, an* saw the rope was running
through it in the wrong direction. I
made a grab at it, but *twas jerked ont
of my hand, an* before I could catch it
again the end had slipped through, an*
there I was, more than a hundred feet
from the ground, not knowing how in
the world I was to get down, an' Jerry
dancing an’ capering below, calling o u t:
“ Gome down and thrash me now, Mr-
Forde, won’t you ?”
Then I remembered that a few days
before I had found this boy annoying
Katie, an* had given him a cut with a
switch I had in my hand. He had slunk
away without a word at the time, but it
seems he remembered the blow, and
took this way of being revenged.
Well, a t first I was scarcely frightened,
expecting somehow that once the people
below knew of the fix I was in, they’d
find some way or other of getting me ont
of i t But, when I came to think of it,
duse a bit of a way could I hit on myself,
an* sure I knew more about chiiweys
t.hun any one else in the place. *Twas
getting late, too; there wouldn’t be much
more than another half hour of daylight,
an* the wind was rising—^I oonld hear it
whistling through the trees.
By this time people knew what had
happened, an* a crowd was collecting;
I oonld'see them coming from all parts,
for of course I had a view all about I
saw a boy go np to the door of the
counting-house, an* presently young
Squire Philip came running ont—run­ning
as if for his life. When he came,
he took the command like, an* began
giving directions, an* the people, who
had only stared at first, now ran here an’
there as he sent them. First they
brought ont a long ladder, an* fixed it on
the roof below the chimney. I could
*Twa8 sodarkby this time th atlcould
not distinguish the faces at a ll; I conld
just make out Squire Philip in his dark
suit among the white mill-mon, *an poor
Katie. She was crouching down on the
ground now, her apron over her head.
All of a sudden I saw her leap np with
a great cry, an’ clap her hands, an* call
ont aometldng. Then there was a con­fused
sort of shout, as if every one in
the crowd was saying the same thing at
the same time, an* then Squire Philip,
making a sign to silence them, put his
two hands up to his month, an* sang out
in a voice that came np to me above the
noise of the wind.
'Take off your stocking and ravel i t ;
will r e ^ . th e ground.’*
At lirst Ididn’t uA^erstand him, being
dazed like, but then the meaning came
on me like a message from Heaven. I
got off one of my socks with some trouble
—nicenewones they were, too, of Katie’s
own knitting, that she had given me for a
Christmas box—an* with the help of my
teeth I loosened one end of the thread.
I t gave readily enough after that, an*
when I had a good piece of it ripped, I
tied my knife to the end of it to make it
heavy, an* let it drop, ripping more an*
more of the sock as it went down. Then
I felt it stop, an* presently there came a
shout telling me to wind it np again.
Very slowly an* carefully I did it, fearing
that the string would break, an* when
the k s t b it of it came np, there was a
piece of strong twine tied to the end of
i t The twine in its turn brought the
rope I had gone np by, an* then I felt
that I was safe.
I managed somehow to p a t it through
the pulley, an* to haul up the plank, an*
as soon as they had fastened the other
end to the windlass below, they gave me
word to come down.
I was so nnmb an* stiff that I conld
not fix myself on the plank, but I man­aged
somehow to ding to the ropes with
my hands. Down, down I came, every
turn of the windlms making the voices
below-seem nearer, and when I was
within afew feet of the ground there was
a dozen pairs of arms ready to catch me,
an* a score of hands held out to me, an’
a hundred voices to welcome me. An*
there was my father waiting for me, an*
Philip saying;
“ But for tne girl he’d have been up
there stilL Not one uf the rest of us
would have thought of the stocking;
’twas the brightest idea I ’ve come across
this many a day. She has saved his life,
Forde, and yon can’t refuse your con­sent
any longer.’*
But when I looked around for Katie,
she was nowhere to have told them that *twaa too short, be seen. She must
kiftrtring as I did the length of every K M ^ g l^ p ^ o ff ai'soonas BhehawI was
ladder in the place; but somehow,
though I heard their shouts plainly, I
could not make them hear mine; it
seemed as if the voices went np, like
smoke.
Then there was a great delay while
they went for a long ladder; and this,
too, didn*t reach half way. A man
climbed up it, however, an* called ont to
know had I a bit of string in my pocket
that I could let down. Not a bit could I
find. I had had a big ball only the day
before, bnt I hod taken it out of my
pocket an’ put it on a shelf at home. I
took off my braces, au’ fastened them
an’ my pocket-haudkerchief together;
but they didn’t near reach the top of
the ladder, so that plan had to be given
up.
All this time the wind was rising, an*
I was getting nnmb with the cold, an*
stiff and cramped from being so long in
the one position. There was a big clock
right over the gateway just opposite,
an* I saw that it only wanted twenty
minutes of five; it would be nearly dark
at five, on* once the darkness set in,
what little hope I had would be gone.
The young squire seemed to have
gone away by this time, but there was
my father among the crowd; an* who
should I see, standing next him, an’
holding on by his arm, bnt Katie! They
had forgotten everything but the fright
about me, an’ he seemed to be talking
to her, an’ comforting her. After a bit
I saw the young squire again; he had a
big thing in his hand looking like
pocket-handkerchiefs stretched over a
frame, an* I saw that it was a kite, an’
that they meant to send a string np to
me in that way. But yon never in all
your life saw such an unmanageable
kite. First ’twas too heavy, an’ then
too light, and then the time they seemed
to lose making a tail to steady it! I
heard after that part of that same tail
was made of bank-notes Squire Philip
took out of his pocket when he could
get nothing else quick enough. He got
them all back later, for not a man, wo­man
or child in the place would have
touched one of them when they saw him
using them in that way.
When the kite did go np a t last, the
wind was so high that they could not
manage it properly. I t came very near
me once, an’ I made a snatch at the
string, nearly over-reacning myself in
doing so; but I missed it, an* just then
there came a terrible gust of wind, the
string broke, an* the kite was carried
away, an’ stuck fast in the branches of
a big tree behind the proprietor’s house.
I looked over at the clock to see how
much time was left me, an* I found that
I could not see the hands any longer ;
the darkness bad come on in the last
few minutes. Then I gave np all hope,
for I knew I oonld never hold on till
morning.
I tried to think of death, an* to make
myself ready for it, but I conldn*t—not
a prayer nor a good word could I call to
mind, only going over an* over again in
my head the way ’twonld all happen—
how the people would go away one by
one, how Td be left alone in the dark-ness
an* the howling wind, an* how at
last r d not be able to hold on longer,
an’ fall, an* be found in the morning all
crushed out of s h i^ . The people be­low
seemed to have given np all thong^t
{of helping me now, an* were standing
. quite qu ist
safe.
The young sqnire hurried my father
an* me away, I didn’t quite know where,
I was 80 dazed, but in a minute or two I
found myself in a warm-lighted dining-room
at the master’s house, an* Master
Philip pouring ont a glass of brandy for
me, an* shaking hands with my father.
I was glad to get the brandy, for I was
worn out with fright an* cold; bnt as
soon as I could, I made my escape,
an* went down to Katie’s cottage. I
hadn’t been there five minutes when
there was a knock at the door, and in
walks my father. He went straight np
to Katie, holding ont his hand.
“ Katie, my girl,” he said, “ I*ve come
to ask your pardon for anything I ’ve
ever said or done against you, an* if you
an’Jim are still of the same mindlwon’t
hinder you from marrying. ’Tia-you
have the best right to hun, for you’ve
saved his life.”
“ And *tis proud and glad I am that I
was able to do that same, Mr. Forde,”
said Katie.
And you'll many him, won*t yon,
my dear?”
“ Ifyou’re satisfied, sir.”
“ I am, my dear, quite satisfied.”
And with that he kissed h e r; and from
that day to this, he and Katie have been
the best of friends. He lives with us for
the last year or so, for he was getting a
little past his work, an’ the proprietor
pensioned him off. He is very happy
with us, an* he is never tired of telling
the children the story of the way that
their motber’s devemess saved my life.
An Innoecat Mnle.
TACKUCS A BKE HIVK AND BREAKS UP A
Fioiao.
A Bother’s Love.
A brave woman, disguised beyond
recognition, follow^ her husband for a
week in order to recover her child.
Finally she discovered that the little one
had been left in a house a t Atchison.
She drove at once to the re tre a t Not
knowing who she was or what she came
for, the family opened the door a t her
bidding and allowed her to enter the
house. She stated that she wanted to
see the little girL She was very rest­less
and uneasy, refusing a seat and
walkmg the fioor continually until the
diUd appeared. Disguised as the wo­man
was, the diild recognized her at
once and ran into her outstretched arms,
crying, “ Oh, my mamma.” The woman
hugged the child dose to her breast
with one arm and with the other tried
to open the door. Failing in this, she
called to the driver outside to kick the
door in. A scene of excitement ensued,
and for a few moments there was a des­perate
struggle between the family and
the determined woman, the family en­deavoring
to retain their charge, and
the mother struggling to rescue i t The
driver without finally succeeded in forc­ing
the door open, and the woman with
her child in her arms was free. She
placed the child in the carriage, enter­ed
herself, drew a pistol, and pointing it
at the terrified family, said, “ Come and
take my child,” and the hackman drove
oO.
H is OamiABT.—James A. Lyon ad­vertises
that be will give S2 a piece for
newspapers containing his obituary. I t
was printed in 1882, when he was re-p
o rtk kiUed In the army. He has just
returned to his did home in fowa, andis
Mmoqs |o Nad about biBMU.
On Saturday, in Talbot county, Ga.,
a local paper says, the colored people
gave a picnic, to which their friends in
the surrounding country were invited.
The forenoon was passed in an enjoyable
manner, nothing occurring to mar the
pleasure of the party. The dinner was
idl that could be wished, and after dis-poidng
of it many engaged in the dance.
The fun continued for an hour or so,
when several shouts near at hand caused
all to run in that direction, when a most
ludicrous sight was presented. A long,
meek-looking mule had his ears set for­ward,
and was doing his utmost to de­molish
with his heels a couple of the
hives. The bees were resenting the at­tack,
and in large numbers were stingiug
him. This caused his muleship to kick
more wildly. Several attempted to untie
the animal, bnt came off with face and
Tianda covered with bees. By this time
the party were forced to scatter on ac-count
of the bees, which by this time
were attacking all whom they met. All
sought protection in a house. One man
was seen on the outside and told to come
in, but said he had seen no bees. In
about a minute one struck him between
the eyes and he beat ahasty retreat, say­ing
he had found them. At last some
one succeeded in cutting the halter and
the mule made a daah eqnal to that of
Sut Lovingood*s daddy when the hornets
were after him, and actcd just about in
the same maimer. This broke np the
pimiin The mule had been borrowed
by a negro, whom he h ^ kicked about a
year since, and for revenge, it is sup­posed,
the darkey tied him near the
hives. One of the bees stung him on the
leg and in an instant a pair of legs were
seen as a flash of l^htninf^ ^ in g back­ward,
and a hive almost completdy de­molished.
The fun then began.
The l i aM-Pla Club.
The President of the Concord School
of Philosophy forwarded a letter to the
d u b , Mfcing Brother Gardner if his ex­perience
with wasps had demonstrated
the alleged fact that only female wasps
use their stingers, and solidting an
early reply.
“ My ’sperience wid wasps runs back
ober hslf a century," replied the old
man as he passed along the letter, “ an*
yit de only fack eber demonstrated am
dat I break fur de bushes on de gall(^,
an* nebber once stop to ax which sex
dey bdongs to.**
jrSTliT bxbtkzd.
Elder Toots suddeifly woke up. <rhi*
unusual proceeding on his part attracted
immediate attention, and considerably
disturbed the meeting, and order had
scarcdy been restored when he arose
and said:
“ I am *stmcted by my constituents
to move dat dis entire club go on a
*scursion to Niagara Falls, an* dat de
’spenses of de trip be paid from de gin-eral
fund.** tt n
Had the roof of Paradise Hall been
suddenly lifted by a cydone the aston­ishment
conld not have been greater.
For a full minute no one spoke. Then
Brother Gardner slowly arose and re-plied:
««£Ider Toots; de fust y’ar of your
membership you did nufSn* but set down
on our hats an* step on onr fe e t De
second y’ar you took to fallin* asleep
when de meetin* begun an* wakin* np
when de las* man frew water on your
bald head. Now, in your third y’ar,
you suddenly wake up as crazy as a roU
fence an’ n ^ e a grab at de treasury.
You talk about your constituents! Why,
bress your dear ole sold, you doan know
whedder de word means a new way of
makin’ apple-sass or the ole way of
eatin’ pumpkin pie wid a spoon! Sot
down. Elder Toots, sot down I”
The Elder still kept his feet, and was
about to go off in another speech when
the Committee on Order and Ejectment
took Kim into the ante-room and poured
water down his back, and sent him home
with the promise to give him some more
Niagara Falls a t the next meeting.—
Detroit Free Pre»».
A Jadlelal Tlew of the Saudi Boy.
In a case in which a railroad company
was sued for injuries, caused by a ttum-table
upon which the plaintiff’s son was
phiying, the Kansas Supreme Conrt pre­sented
this judicial view of the small
boy :—
“ Everybody knows that by nature
and by instinct boys love to ride, and
love to move by other means than their
own locomotion. They will ding to
the hind ends of moving wagons, ride
upon swings and swinging gates, slide
upon cellar doers and the rails of stair­cases,
pull sleds up hill in order to ride
down upon them on the mow, and even
pay to ride upon imitation horses and
imitation chariots swung around in a
oirde by means of steam or horse power.
This last is very much like riding around
in a d rd e upon a turn-table. Now
everybody, knowing the nature and the
instincts common to all boys, must act
accordingly. No person has a right to
leave, even on his own land, dangerous
m acl^ery calculated to attract and en­tice
boys to it, there to be injured, un­less
he first tid(es proper steps to guard
against all danger; and any person who
thus does leave dangerous machinery ex­posed
without first providing against all
danger, is guilty of negligence.”
Tim! Gebiun Abht.—On April 1,
1881, when the organization of the severid
corps lately ordered to be formed will
have been completed, the German field
army will comprise 771,749 officers and
men of all ranks and arms of the service
—the reserve troops will number 341,480
of all ranks, landwehr forces 293,020,
and the garrison troopa 125,834. Alto­gether,
therefore, in the event of a
I general mobilization Germany would
I have over a million and a half of soldiers
at onea awlabla.
The Steam Cataaumui.
TWO THIAIi TBITS OFTHEKOVEIi CBAVT—ITS
ADYANTAOES ASD DEFECTS NOTED.
Two trial trips were made at Nyack on
the Hudson by the steam catarmaran H.
W. Longfellow. In the morning the
catamaran steamed up the river about
five miles and back. A six-bladed screw,
with dght feet pitch, was used. The
dip of the screw was about two feet six
inches. With forty pounds of steam
160 revolutions were made and an aver­age
speed attained of seven miles an
hour. The machinery worked well.
The boat itself steered easily, turning in
twice her own length, and the two hulls
parted the water smoothly and grace-fully.
The traaKla' wiaaia propell­ing
iH>wer. The screw did not twe hold
sufficiently, and merely churned the
water into foam, without imparting much
headway to the boat Increasing the
number of revolutions only mado mat­ters
worse, a hole being made ia the
water which virtually lessened the al­ready
slight dip. When the catamaran
returned to the pier three of the blades
were removed from the screw and the
pitdi increased to twelve feet.
Another trial trip was made in the af­ternoon,
when these and minor alterar-tions
had been effected. As tie Long­fellow
steamed np the river she was sa­luted
by the blowing of whistles and the
dipping of colors. The reduction of the
blades and the increase of the pitch
proved a decided improvement, and the
speed was increased to about ten miles.
The easy manner in which she steered
and turned, and the light buoyant mo­tion
as her hulls parted the water,
was particularly noticeable. As in the
morning, when steam was run up and
revolutions increased it produced no bet-ter
effect, owing to the insufficient dip
of the screw, which still chopped and
churned the water without increai^g
the headway. On the return Commo­dore
William Yoorhis, the owner, said
the position of the screw was merdy an
expieriment, and it would be changed.
He was satisfied that the prindple of the
catamaran as regards increased power
with less weight and displacement had
been demonstrated to be successful
Only one-tenth of the actual power was
applied owing to fhe’difficulty with the
screw.
Mr. J. B. Wells, the engineer who in­vented
the engines, said that the shaft
should be lengtheneid about twenty feet,
and the screw submerged, instead of
having its present dip. He had no
doubt then that on 350 to 400 revela­tions,
which the engines are capable of,
a s p ^ uf twenty-five t a twentj-eight
miles an hour would be obtained. The
entire machinery, co3, boiler, engine,
bearinjp, etc., weigh only fift^ n tons.
The engine is a two-piston Ugh-pressnre
balance, rated at 450-horse power.
There is a plunger pump, which feeds
and regulates the supply of water to the
boiler, thus additionally lessening the
weight to be carried. The two iron
hulls are 200 feet long, about six feet in
diameter a t the widest.part, and tapering
to points a t each end. They are divided
into six water-tight compartments, the
vessd thus forming a huge life ra ft The
hulls are about ten feet apart, and on
them rests a single deck, 125 feet long,
twenty .five feet beam. In the centre of
the deck is the nuushinery, and forward
and aft will be accommodations for pas­sengers,
the deck, of course being housed
over, with a pilot house on top. The
joiner work is not yet completed, bnt
there will be a ladiea* saloon aft, with a
saloon and smoking room for gentlemen
forward.
liT f t Vp to tbe Mottocfc
There is no nrc in patting iip the
motto “ God bless onr home,’* if the
father is a rough old bear, and the spirit
of disco::rte8y and rudeness is taught by
parents to chiltlren, and by the older to
the younger. There is no use in putting
up the motto “ The Lord will provide,”
while the father is shiftless, the mother
IS shiftless, the boys refuse to work, and
the girls busy themsdves over gewgaws
and finery. There is no use in putting
up the motto “ The greatest of these is
charity,** while the tongue of the back­biter
wags in the family, and silly gossip
is dispensed a t the tea-table. There
no use in placing conspicnoudy the
motto “ The liberal man deviseth liberal
things,” while the money diinks in the
pockets of the “ head of the household,”
groaning to get out and see the light of
day, and there are dollars and dimes for
wine and tobacco and other luxuries, bat
positively not one cent for the church.
Til how many homes are these mottoes
standing—let us say, hanging—sarcasms,
which serve only to point a jest and
adorn a satire! The beauty of quiet
lives, of trustfnl, hopeful, free handed,
free-hearted, charitable lives, is one of
surpassing loveliness, and those lives
shed their own incomparable fragrance,
and the world knows where to find them.
And they still remain fresh and fadeless
when the colors of the pigment and the
fioss have faded, and the very frames
have rotted away in their joints.
Sad Fate of aa Old Bachelor.
The blessed baby had been howling in
the street car for nine blocks, imtil every­body
iu the car had escaped except a
bald-headed old Galvestonian, who rub­bed
the top of his dome of thought,
scowled, stamped, famed, and gave other
evidences of being annoyed.
“ I hope the baby don’t disturb you,
sir,” said the mother pleasantly.
“ No, madam, it does not,** he said,
savagely gritting his teeth.
“ I am so glad. I was afraid it did—
little tootsy, wootsy, yum, yam, yum!”
“ No, madam, it don’t disturb me,’*he
said stUl more savagdy. “ Little tootsy
fiddle-sticks only disturbs people in the
adjoining ooanty. I t has made a chat­tering
idiot of me five blocks ago,** and
springing through the car window he
gave a maniacal h a ! h a ! h a ! and disap-peaieda*
oond a corner.
WIT Ain» WISBOM.
MoflQmoBslead a hum-dmm life
AiiWaxs cnt off in its prime—An in­terest
coupon. ___
CoMMissiONEB Le Due, in his erop
reports, never mentions the hops a t tto
S ee hebb, John, is your sweetheart
afiwtory girl?” “ Xes, William, latia-factory.”
The highest readi of human seieneo
is the sdentifio recognitioa of human
ignorance.
The superiority of some men is merdy
local They are great because their aa-sociations
are little.
T h i s tihb of life when the young man’a
mind turns fondly to dress is wipleasant-ly
called tho garb aga
Aor always so that the immediate nu^
tive of thy will may become a univeiBal
rule for all intelligent beings.
OraaoiT is the main thing whieh doea
good or harm in the world. I t is our
false opinions of things which ruin as.
I f xon would be pungent, be brief;
for it is witb words aa with sunbeams—
the more t h ^ are condensed, the deeper
they bum.
“ Tou never saw my hands as dirtiy aa
that,” said a petulant mother to bar
little girL “ No, bnt your ma did,” wao
the reidy.
iBaxrABUsehoohnaster: “ Now, than,
stupid, what’s the next wocd? Wbat
comea after cheese?” Doll boy: “ A
mouse, sir.**
Kansas school teaeher: “ Wheredoea
oar grain go to?** “ Into the hopper.’
“What h o p p e rr “ Grasshopper,” tri-omphantly
shouted a scholar.
MnaoK was adrad if he intanded to
instract his daughter in the diflbrent lan­guages,
to which he replied: “ No^ d r 1
One tongue is sufficient for a woaiaa I”
“ I t ’s nor the p h is ^ am a n d h iiite
that mJktM him d iz ^ ," said OTIabetty,
“bnt it’shikin’ at the bartindn*sdianiond
through the bottom iv the tumblers, bo
gorra!”
A uaBnano->OD agent waa stra<dc by
lightnhig the other day, and the '
nomen on can only be accounted for on
the theory that the eleotric fluid got tired
of being lied ab o a t
Whax waa it? I went out into tba
wooda and got i t Afterlgotikllocfced
for i t The more I looked fur it tholew
I liked i t I brought it home in a y
hand beeauseleouldn’tf ln d it AsUtcr
A Nobxb Cabouiia man will woriE f a n
hours to chop down a tree that a eoaa m
in, but nothing would induce him to splift
up enough wood to cook the supper with.
The la tte r proceeding isn’t qpoitL
“ How CAin yon to fiiQ in jam e i—i.
nation?” aaked the tutor. “ I thooc^X
crammed yon thoroughly.” “Well, yon
see,” replied the student, “ th eftetw aa
you crammed m e so tif^ tX eooldn’tg a l
t o u t.”
S am i Leavenworih doeton gatbeced
around a who feO on the walk.
Four called it a case of snnstr«M and
the other three said it waa a f it Along
mxma n small boy and proved that i t m a
banana peeL
The treasure house of a man’s life i t
his heart, and he who has nothing thara
is poverty-stricken, though he roU in
gold; while he who haa a good deal
there is rich, whether be haa a root a m
his head or n o t
“ Ho£a on dar,” said a colored man,
liMKng an acqaaintance. “ Doea yer
cross de street ebery time yer sees ma
ter keep from payin’ dat bill?” “ No, I
doeen’t ” “What fur den?” “ Tar
keep from bein’ axed fur i t ”
APAJOsBoHEiaANis telling hismoda
of life to a friend fnan the provincial dia-tricta.
“ In the morning I awake,"sa^
he, “ and ringfor m j valet de ehambre.’'
“ How! yoakeepava/etdecAomdraT*
Wdl, no, but 1 keep a b d i ’'
“ Thuix twice before yon speak an^**
That is a good enough rule fo* bcom
people,but there are fcika whocan think
of so mudi meaner things to say the seo-ondtime
try ingthat we prefer to bear
their first inspiration on the snhjeei
A xoma and beautiful. Philadelphia
maiden was rapidly sinking with .tba
lodqaw when her physician conoeived
the happy idea of holding a spoonful'of
ice cream to her lips. The moment be
did so she opened her jaws and Hhrieked,
“ Don’t give me a little plate; maka
it a big one."
“ Lookheah, squire, dorsaniggab m
Gdveston what’s been ssssin* me. Sup­posing
I jes maul de life outen him?*
Tbe lawyer replied: “ Ton would be apt
to get your ne<& stretched." “ Now,
boss, you is jokin*. What do white fd k i
care for one niggidi moab or lew now da
census is done tuck ?”
“ How came these holes in yoar al-bows?”
said a widowed mother to bar
onfy son. “ Oh, mother, I hid behind
the sofa when Colond GoUerwsa saying
to Maria that he’d take her even if yon
had to be thrown in ; and he didn’t know
I waa there; and so 1 h d d my tongna
and laughed in my sleavea till I baza
’em.”
Now THAT the politieal campaign ia
open, the business in certain deseriptidaa
of b ew a r e ought to increase th e d ^
maud for hammers and nails foruse wbaa
there is to be “ another lie nailed;” ioa
spikes, when “ the enemy’s guns sra
spiked,” and the call for stuvea in wbiA
to keep “ the old Area still burning;’*
ought to be immfflise.
U iiDn the head of “ Sepsibla A d r i^ ”
an agrienltaral journal printa an aitida
advising young men to bay a fana.
There are thousands of young man in
tiii» country who cannot raiae money
enough to pay for the washing of two
shirts per week. I f d l such were to buy
a form they would soon be rich e n o u ^
to buy a seat in the Legislature. But
perlL^ps they have never once thought of
th a t »
SawaBAOE.—Since last year tw ra ^
and a half miles of sewage drains hav«
been made in Memphie.
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hS PO B T . - - - * C O N N .
r o ir j) BETTER ASK ME.
t nothing for it but to
wait in the hope of his coming round,
an* very little hope we had of that same.
As we were putting np a steam-engine
in the mill, we had of course to have a
big chimney, an* we got a man down
from town to build i t—one of them chaps
that builds chimneys on’ nothing else,
an’ thinks nobody knows anything about
it but theirselves. I was working along
with him, and indeed 'twas I that built
the most of it, an* a right good job it
was. ’Twas finished by Ghristmss—
ten yean ago this Christmas coming on
—all bu^ tiie lightning conductor, and
that was not put up owing to the owner’s
wanting to make inquiries when he’d go
to town, an’ to see for himself whai
would be the best kind to use. The
proprietor was a scientific sort of a gen­tleman,
an’ had ideas of his own—some­times
they’d be better than other peo­ple’s,
sometimes not as good.
At any rate, there was a delay about
the conductor, an’ in the meantime the
engines were a t work, an* the big
chimney was smoking away like blazes.
Hr. Brown, the strange workman, had
gone away, saying, very condescending
like, that he was sure Jim Forde (that
was me) would be able to futen the rod
to the chimney as well as he could do it
himself. He took all his scaffolding
with him, but before he went away, he
fixed a beam with a pulley in it into the
top of the chimney, an* left a long rope
hanging through it, so that a man could
be hoisted np at any time; an* there the
roiie hung dangling, w e ^ after week,
until the owner came home, bringing the
rod along with him.
Once it had come,'^here was no good
losing any more time in fixing it, so one
Saturday a f t^ o o n in January, up I
went on a plank, slung securely at the
end of the rope, my tools along with me,
an’ nettled myself astride on the stone
ooping. ’Twas rather late in the day,
but the morning had been too wet an’
stormy to work, an* the owner was m
impatient to get the job done as if it
hadn’t been hitnaAlf that was hindering
it all time. I was as much a t home
atop of the chimney as I was on the
gronnd, an I worked on without once
looking down, until my job was finished,
an* I was putting np my tools. Then,
aU of a sudden, I heard a rattling nom,
an* looking over, I saw the plank gcwg
down very fa st I called o n t “ Hullo,
th ere! send that np again, will yon?”
but the only answer I got was a lond
laugh, for all the world like siUy Jerry
the natural’s ; and sure enough there he
was, standing by the windlass, jumping
an’ clapping his hand«.
I looked about for the man whose
business it was to manage the ^nndloss,
but not a sign of him was there, an* in a
minute I heard the rattle of the pulley
again, an* saw the rope was running
through it in the wrong direction. I
made a grab at it, but *twas jerked ont
of my hand, an* before I could catch it
again the end had slipped through, an*
there I was, more than a hundred feet
from the ground, not knowing how in
the world I was to get down, an' Jerry
dancing an’ capering below, calling o u t:
“ Gome down and thrash me now, Mr-
Forde, won’t you ?”
Then I remembered that a few days
before I had found this boy annoying
Katie, an* had given him a cut with a
switch I had in my hand. He had slunk
away without a word at the time, but it
seems he remembered the blow, and
took this way of being revenged.
Well, a t first I was scarcely frightened,
expecting somehow that once the people
below knew of the fix I was in, they’d
find some way or other of getting me ont
of i t But, when I came to think of it,
duse a bit of a way could I hit on myself,
an* sure I knew more about chiiweys
t.hun any one else in the place. *Twas
getting late, too; there wouldn’t be much
more than another half hour of daylight,
an* the wind was rising—^I oonld hear it
whistling through the trees.
By this time people knew what had
happened, an* a crowd was collecting;
I oonld'see them coming from all parts,
for of course I had a view all about I
saw a boy go np to the door of the
counting-house, an* presently young
Squire Philip came running ont—run­ning
as if for his life. When he came,
he took the command like, an* began
giving directions, an* the people, who
had only stared at first, now ran here an’
there as he sent them. First they
brought ont a long ladder, an* fixed it on
the roof below the chimney. I could
*Twa8 sodarkby this time th atlcould
not distinguish the faces at a ll; I conld
just make out Squire Philip in his dark
suit among the white mill-mon, *an poor
Katie. She was crouching down on the
ground now, her apron over her head.
All of a sudden I saw her leap np with
a great cry, an’ clap her hands, an* call
ont aometldng. Then there was a con­fused
sort of shout, as if every one in
the crowd was saying the same thing at
the same time, an* then Squire Philip,
making a sign to silence them, put his
two hands up to his month, an* sang out
in a voice that came np to me above the
noise of the wind.
'Take off your stocking and ravel i t ;
will r e ^ . th e ground.’*
At lirst Ididn’t uA^erstand him, being
dazed like, but then the meaning came
on me like a message from Heaven. I
got off one of my socks with some trouble
—nicenewones they were, too, of Katie’s
own knitting, that she had given me for a
Christmas box—an* with the help of my
teeth I loosened one end of the thread.
I t gave readily enough after that, an*
when I had a good piece of it ripped, I
tied my knife to the end of it to make it
heavy, an* let it drop, ripping more an*
more of the sock as it went down. Then
I felt it stop, an* presently there came a
shout telling me to wind it np again.
Very slowly an* carefully I did it, fearing
that the string would break, an* when
the k s t b it of it came np, there was a
piece of strong twine tied to the end of
i t The twine in its turn brought the
rope I had gone np by, an* then I felt
that I was safe.
I managed somehow to p a t it through
the pulley, an* to haul up the plank, an*
as soon as they had fastened the other
end to the windlass below, they gave me
word to come down.
I was so nnmb an* stiff that I conld
not fix myself on the plank, but I man­aged
somehow to ding to the ropes with
my hands. Down, down I came, every
turn of the windlms making the voices
below-seem nearer, and when I was
within afew feet of the ground there was
a dozen pairs of arms ready to catch me,
an* a score of hands held out to me, an’
a hundred voices to welcome me. An*
there was my father waiting for me, an*
Philip saying;
“ But for tne girl he’d have been up
there stilL Not one uf the rest of us
would have thought of the stocking;
’twas the brightest idea I ’ve come across
this many a day. She has saved his life,
Forde, and yon can’t refuse your con­sent
any longer.’*
But when I looked around for Katie,
she was nowhere to have told them that *twaa too short, be seen. She must
kiftrtring as I did the length of every K M ^ g l^ p ^ o ff ai'soonas BhehawI was
ladder in the place; but somehow,
though I heard their shouts plainly, I
could not make them hear mine; it
seemed as if the voices went np, like
smoke.
Then there was a great delay while
they went for a long ladder; and this,
too, didn*t reach half way. A man
climbed up it, however, an* called ont to
know had I a bit of string in my pocket
that I could let down. Not a bit could I
find. I had had a big ball only the day
before, bnt I hod taken it out of my
pocket an’ put it on a shelf at home. I
took off my braces, au’ fastened them
an’ my pocket-haudkerchief together;
but they didn’t near reach the top of
the ladder, so that plan had to be given
up.
All this time the wind was rising, an*
I was getting nnmb with the cold, an*
stiff and cramped from being so long in
the one position. There was a big clock
right over the gateway just opposite,
an* I saw that it only wanted twenty
minutes of five; it would be nearly dark
at five, on* once the darkness set in,
what little hope I had would be gone.
The young squire seemed to have
gone away by this time, but there was
my father among the crowd; an* who
should I see, standing next him, an’
holding on by his arm, bnt Katie! They
had forgotten everything but the fright
about me, an’ he seemed to be talking
to her, an’ comforting her. After a bit
I saw the young squire again; he had a
big thing in his hand looking like
pocket-handkerchiefs stretched over a
frame, an* I saw that it was a kite, an’
that they meant to send a string np to
me in that way. But yon never in all
your life saw such an unmanageable
kite. First ’twas too heavy, an’ then
too light, and then the time they seemed
to lose making a tail to steady it! I
heard after that part of that same tail
was made of bank-notes Squire Philip
took out of his pocket when he could
get nothing else quick enough. He got
them all back later, for not a man, wo­man
or child in the place would have
touched one of them when they saw him
using them in that way.
When the kite did go np a t last, the
wind was so high that they could not
manage it properly. I t came very near
me once, an’ I made a snatch at the
string, nearly over-reacning myself in
doing so; but I missed it, an* just then
there came a terrible gust of wind, the
string broke, an* the kite was carried
away, an’ stuck fast in the branches of
a big tree behind the proprietor’s house.
I looked over at the clock to see how
much time was left me, an* I found that
I could not see the hands any longer ;
the darkness bad come on in the last
few minutes. Then I gave np all hope,
for I knew I oonld never hold on till
morning.
I tried to think of death, an* to make
myself ready for it, but I conldn*t—not
a prayer nor a good word could I call to
mind, only going over an* over again in
my head the way ’twonld all happen—
how the people would go away one by
one, how Td be left alone in the dark-ness
an* the howling wind, an* how at
last r d not be able to hold on longer,
an’ fall, an* be found in the morning all
crushed out of s h i^ . The people be­low
seemed to have given np all thong^t
{of helping me now, an* were standing
. quite qu ist
safe.
The young sqnire hurried my father
an* me away, I didn’t quite know where,
I was 80 dazed, but in a minute or two I
found myself in a warm-lighted dining-room
at the master’s house, an* Master
Philip pouring ont a glass of brandy for
me, an* shaking hands with my father.
I was glad to get the brandy, for I was
worn out with fright an* cold; bnt as
soon as I could, I made my escape,
an* went down to Katie’s cottage. I
hadn’t been there five minutes when
there was a knock at the door, and in
walks my father. He went straight np
to Katie, holding ont his hand.
“ Katie, my girl,” he said, “ I*ve come
to ask your pardon for anything I ’ve
ever said or done against you, an* if you
an’Jim are still of the same mindlwon’t
hinder you from marrying. ’Tia-you
have the best right to hun, for you’ve
saved his life.”
“ And *tis proud and glad I am that I
was able to do that same, Mr. Forde,”
said Katie.
And you'll many him, won*t yon,
my dear?”
“ Ifyou’re satisfied, sir.”
“ I am, my dear, quite satisfied.”
And with that he kissed h e r; and from
that day to this, he and Katie have been
the best of friends. He lives with us for
the last year or so, for he was getting a
little past his work, an’ the proprietor
pensioned him off. He is very happy
with us, an* he is never tired of telling
the children the story of the way that
their motber’s devemess saved my life.
An Innoecat Mnle.
TACKUCS A BKE HIVK AND BREAKS UP A
Fioiao.
A Bother’s Love.
A brave woman, disguised beyond
recognition, follow^ her husband for a
week in order to recover her child.
Finally she discovered that the little one
had been left in a house a t Atchison.
She drove at once to the re tre a t Not
knowing who she was or what she came
for, the family opened the door a t her
bidding and allowed her to enter the
house. She stated that she wanted to
see the little girL She was very rest­less
and uneasy, refusing a seat and
walkmg the fioor continually until the
diUd appeared. Disguised as the wo­man
was, the diild recognized her at
once and ran into her outstretched arms,
crying, “ Oh, my mamma.” The woman
hugged the child dose to her breast
with one arm and with the other tried
to open the door. Failing in this, she
called to the driver outside to kick the
door in. A scene of excitement ensued,
and for a few moments there was a des­perate
struggle between the family and
the determined woman, the family en­deavoring
to retain their charge, and
the mother struggling to rescue i t The
driver without finally succeeded in forc­ing
the door open, and the woman with
her child in her arms was free. She
placed the child in the carriage, enter­ed
herself, drew a pistol, and pointing it
at the terrified family, said, “ Come and
take my child,” and the hackman drove
oO.
H is OamiABT.—James A. Lyon ad­vertises
that be will give S2 a piece for
newspapers containing his obituary. I t
was printed in 1882, when he was re-p
o rtk kiUed In the army. He has just
returned to his did home in fowa, andis
Mmoqs |o Nad about biBMU.
On Saturday, in Talbot county, Ga.,
a local paper says, the colored people
gave a picnic, to which their friends in
the surrounding country were invited.
The forenoon was passed in an enjoyable
manner, nothing occurring to mar the
pleasure of the party. The dinner was
idl that could be wished, and after dis-poidng
of it many engaged in the dance.
The fun continued for an hour or so,
when several shouts near at hand caused
all to run in that direction, when a most
ludicrous sight was presented. A long,
meek-looking mule had his ears set for­ward,
and was doing his utmost to de­molish
with his heels a couple of the
hives. The bees were resenting the at­tack,
and in large numbers were stingiug
him. This caused his muleship to kick
more wildly. Several attempted to untie
the animal, bnt came off with face and
Tianda covered with bees. By this time
the party were forced to scatter on ac-count
of the bees, which by this time
were attacking all whom they met. All
sought protection in a house. One man
was seen on the outside and told to come
in, but said he had seen no bees. In
about a minute one struck him between
the eyes and he beat ahasty retreat, say­ing
he had found them. At last some
one succeeded in cutting the halter and
the mule made a daah eqnal to that of
Sut Lovingood*s daddy when the hornets
were after him, and actcd just about in
the same maimer. This broke np the
pimiin The mule had been borrowed
by a negro, whom he h ^ kicked about a
year since, and for revenge, it is sup­posed,
the darkey tied him near the
hives. One of the bees stung him on the
leg and in an instant a pair of legs were
seen as a flash of l^htninf^ ^ in g back­ward,
and a hive almost completdy de­molished.
The fun then began.
The l i aM-Pla Club.
The President of the Concord School
of Philosophy forwarded a letter to the
d u b , Mfcing Brother Gardner if his ex­perience
with wasps had demonstrated
the alleged fact that only female wasps
use their stingers, and solidting an
early reply.
“ My ’sperience wid wasps runs back
ober hslf a century," replied the old
man as he passed along the letter, “ an*
yit de only fack eber demonstrated am
dat I break fur de bushes on de gall(^,
an* nebber once stop to ax which sex
dey bdongs to.**
jrSTliT bxbtkzd.
Elder Toots suddeifly woke up. wer. The screw did not twe hold
sufficiently, and merely churned the
water into foam, without imparting much
headway to the boat Increasing the
number of revolutions only mado mat­ters
worse, a hole being made ia the
water which virtually lessened the al­ready
slight dip. When the catamaran
returned to the pier three of the blades
were removed from the screw and the
pitdi increased to twelve feet.
Another trial trip was made in the af­ternoon,
when these and minor alterar-tions
had been effected. As tie Long­fellow
steamed np the river she was sa­luted
by the blowing of whistles and the
dipping of colors. The reduction of the
blades and the increase of the pitch
proved a decided improvement, and the
speed was increased to about ten miles.
The easy manner in which she steered
and turned, and the light buoyant mo­tion
as her hulls parted the water,
was particularly noticeable. As in the
morning, when steam was run up and
revolutions increased it produced no bet-ter
effect, owing to the insufficient dip
of the screw, which still chopped and
churned the water without increai^g
the headway. On the return Commo­dore
William Yoorhis, the owner, said
the position of the screw was merdy an
expieriment, and it would be changed.
He was satisfied that the prindple of the
catamaran as regards increased power
with less weight and displacement had
been demonstrated to be successful
Only one-tenth of the actual power was
applied owing to fhe’difficulty with the
screw.
Mr. J. B. Wells, the engineer who in­vented
the engines, said that the shaft
should be lengtheneid about twenty feet,
and the screw submerged, instead of
having its present dip. He had no
doubt then that on 350 to 400 revela­tions,
which the engines are capable of,
a s p ^ uf twenty-five t a twentj-eight
miles an hour would be obtained. The
entire machinery, co3, boiler, engine,
bearinjp, etc., weigh only fift^ n tons.
The engine is a two-piston Ugh-pressnre
balance, rated at 450-horse power.
There is a plunger pump, which feeds
and regulates the supply of water to the
boiler, thus additionally lessening the
weight to be carried. The two iron
hulls are 200 feet long, about six feet in
diameter a t the widest.part, and tapering
to points a t each end. They are divided
into six water-tight compartments, the
vessd thus forming a huge life ra ft The
hulls are about ten feet apart, and on
them rests a single deck, 125 feet long,
twenty .five feet beam. In the centre of
the deck is the nuushinery, and forward
and aft will be accommodations for pas­sengers,
the deck, of course being housed
over, with a pilot house on top. The
joiner work is not yet completed, bnt
there will be a ladiea* saloon aft, with a
saloon and smoking room for gentlemen
forward.
liT f t Vp to tbe Mottocfc
There is no nrc in patting iip the
motto “ God bless onr home,’* if the
father is a rough old bear, and the spirit
of disco::rte8y and rudeness is taught by
parents to chiltlren, and by the older to
the younger. There is no use in putting
up the motto “ The Lord will provide,”
while the father is shiftless, the mother
IS shiftless, the boys refuse to work, and
the girls busy themsdves over gewgaws
and finery. There is no use in putting
up the motto “ The greatest of these is
charity,** while the tongue of the back­biter
wags in the family, and silly gossip
is dispensed a t the tea-table. There
no use in placing conspicnoudy the
motto “ The liberal man deviseth liberal
things,” while the money diinks in the
pockets of the “ head of the household,”
groaning to get out and see the light of
day, and there are dollars and dimes for
wine and tobacco and other luxuries, bat
positively not one cent for the church.
Til how many homes are these mottoes
standing—let us say, hanging—sarcasms,
which serve only to point a jest and
adorn a satire! The beauty of quiet
lives, of trustfnl, hopeful, free handed,
free-hearted, charitable lives, is one of
surpassing loveliness, and those lives
shed their own incomparable fragrance,
and the world knows where to find them.
And they still remain fresh and fadeless
when the colors of the pigment and the
fioss have faded, and the very frames
have rotted away in their joints.
Sad Fate of aa Old Bachelor.
The blessed baby had been howling in
the street car for nine blocks, imtil every­body
iu the car had escaped except a
bald-headed old Galvestonian, who rub­bed
the top of his dome of thought,
scowled, stamped, famed, and gave other
evidences of being annoyed.
“ I hope the baby don’t disturb you,
sir,” said the mother pleasantly.
“ No, madam, it does not,** he said,
savagely gritting his teeth.
“ I am so glad. I was afraid it did—
little tootsy, wootsy, yum, yam, yum!”
“ No, madam, it don’t disturb me,’*he
said stUl more savagdy. “ Little tootsy
fiddle-sticks only disturbs people in the
adjoining ooanty. I t has made a chat­tering
idiot of me five blocks ago,** and
springing through the car window he
gave a maniacal h a ! h a ! h a ! and disap-peaieda*
oond a corner.
WIT Ain» WISBOM.
MoflQmoBslead a hum-dmm life
AiiWaxs cnt off in its prime—An in­terest
coupon. ___
CoMMissiONEB Le Due, in his erop
reports, never mentions the hops a t tto
S ee hebb, John, is your sweetheart
afiwtory girl?” “ Xes, William, latia-factory.”
The highest readi of human seieneo
is the sdentifio recognitioa of human
ignorance.
The superiority of some men is merdy
local They are great because their aa-sociations
are little.
T h i s tihb of life when the young man’a
mind turns fondly to dress is wipleasant-ly
called tho garb aga
Aor always so that the immediate nu^
tive of thy will may become a univeiBal
rule for all intelligent beings.
OraaoiT is the main thing whieh doea
good or harm in the world. I t is our
false opinions of things which ruin as.
I f xon would be pungent, be brief;
for it is witb words aa with sunbeams—
the more t h ^ are condensed, the deeper
they bum.
“ Tou never saw my hands as dirtiy aa
that,” said a petulant mother to bar
little girL “ No, bnt your ma did,” wao
the reidy.
iBaxrABUsehoohnaster: “ Now, than,
stupid, what’s the next wocd? Wbat
comea after cheese?” Doll boy: “ A
mouse, sir.**
Kansas school teaeher: “ Wheredoea
oar grain go to?** “ Into the hopper.’
“What h o p p e rr “ Grasshopper,” tri-omphantly
shouted a scholar.
MnaoK was adrad if he intanded to
instract his daughter in the diflbrent lan­guages,
to which he replied: “ No^ d r 1
One tongue is sufficient for a woaiaa I”
“ I t ’s nor the p h is ^ am a n d h iiite
that mJktM him d iz ^ ," said OTIabetty,
“bnt it’shikin’ at the bartindn*sdianiond
through the bottom iv the tumblers, bo
gorra!”
A uaBnano->OD agent waa stra